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Off the beaten path: India

India is such a vast and amazing land of contrasts that one could call it The country off the beaten path - there are so many unusual places to explore and weird things to encounter! The variety of breathtaking landscapes, the mysterious mountain areas with ancient relics, remains and temples, magnetic hills, levitating stones, Leh - the top of the world, strange religious rituals, floating islands, the list of destinations to travel to can go on and on...

Roopkund - the lake of skeletons

Roopkund in Uttarakhand is a lake with skeletons of 500-600 people around it and floating in it. Supposedly they were pilgrims from 850 A.D. The icy water preserved hair, nails and the pieces of…
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In: weird phenomena, disasters, lakes, nature vs man, memento mori

Aghori - the holy cannibals of Shiva

Aghori are a Shaiva sect of sadhus in India, the representatives of which can be found around cremation grounds, because they eat human flesh, cover themselves with ashes and perform strange practices…
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In: weird traditions, rituals, bones